As announced by Google, the Firebase Crash Reporting is joining forces with Fabric. Here's a link
The exact details of how is this going to happen are abstract. But for developers who were using Firebase Crash Reporting, does this mean that they have to create a new account on Fabric and integrate its SDK and remove the one from Firebase?
I know I could wait until Google does the actual implementation, but switching from one SDK to another is not the best approach, if anyone has any insight on this...
The following is the text from the Firebase console when looking at Crash Reporting for the first time without any existing data. There's no additional information available about how exactly it's going to work.
Fabric’s Crashlytics
In the future, Fabric’s Crashlytics will become our primary crash
reporter because it provides advanced tools for solving stability
issues. If you’d like to be an early adopter, you can get a head start
by using Crashlytics on Fabric’s platform.
Crash Reporting
If you prefer to monitor stability in Firebase, you still have access
to Firebase Crash Reporting, which equips you with the essential tools
you need to track and resolve crashes. Eventually, Firebase Crash
Reporting will be seamlessly upgraded to Crashlytics.
according to the Google groups discussion, they recommend ppl to use crashytics for now if they don't have any strong preferences.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/firebase-talk/_uUuJm0wui8/rHuWYKbABwAJ
Ian Barber
We're mainly trying to signal forward intent - the feature sets are slightly different so I appreciate you may prefer to use Firebase Crash on a new app, but for those with no standing inclination we're recommending they go with crashlytics.
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I have Firebase Crashlytics set up correctly on my application. But I have been unable to access my Crashlytics dashboard on Firebase.
It keeps taking me to this page to this page up fabric which I have been unable to. Is there a way around this.
Fabric/Firebaser here - hopefully this helps anyone who might run into something like this in the future. More clarification has been added to this particular screen since this question's creation as well.
One reason why this can happen is some sort of misstep in the migration process. If you have a Fabric app and are attempting to migrate to Firebase Crashlytics, you should complete the clickthrough migration and then you should be able to entirely skip seeing these options once that's complete. No other code changes are required. You will also be linked to the clickthrough migration if you choose option 1 on step 1 of the above view.
Other than that, ensure that you're installing Crashlytics correctly via these instructions. You can also click "Test your Implementation" at the bottom of that page to see how you can enable Crashlytics debug logging (to verify in your Xcode logs if Crashlytics is communicating with the server) and perform a test crash.
In my app ,i have integrated Crashlytics ,ACRA and Google Analytics for reporting crashes
-> is there any side effect of one on others ?
-> Which one is better to use.
-> How crash reporting tools work ,if one caught the crash how other will get to report the same crash ?
Using multiple crash reporting solutions in one project simultaneously might run your application into concurrency issue, where application eventually hangs forever upon any crash.
Crash reporting solutions intercept uncaught crashes, in one way or another. The flow is basically the same:
Intercept uncaught crash;
Log it to be able to send info to server;
Re-throw crash, so that the app eventually crashes.
I could imagine a situation where 2 crash reporting solutions create an infinite loop throwing the same exception to each other forever, according to the steps above.
At least, that's what it looked like when I used Google Analytics (with crash reporting turned on) together with Crashlytics. The application just hanged forever without any visible crashing, until I eventually turned Google Analytics crash reporting off.
is there any side effect of one on others ?
Google Analytics is not really good to use. I created a Google Analytics account a few days before the implementation. It had not been used and not even been copied(the code) and when I came back to insert Google Analytics I had to get the code. Noone had used a Google Analytics version of the app and it wasn't even released and it had a lot of usages logged. I don't like google analytics because the code's are easy to crack and are used by third party websites without consent to add fake clicks on your website when the code isn't even used there.
Additonally, Google Analytics does only handle when it is forced to log. As it is not a dedicated crash analytics tool it does not log crashes like ACRA, Crashalytics and Firebase crashes.
Which one is better to use.
That is really up to you, but personally I find ACRA to be better because you can use backends on your own site. If the site goes down, so does ACRA so it really helps to feel in control of the bringing the site back up.
Additionally, there are many backends if you want to use your own site. And if you don't find one that works you can create one. Crashalytics and Firebase rely on their own dashboard on their respective pages, which means another password and username to remember.
How crash reporting tools work ,if one caught the crash how other will get to report the same crash ?
See Drew's answer
Crash analytics tools Might be using Global Exception handling as in this https://stackoverflow.com/a/8877177/1602333 for entire App to handle uncaught Exceptions.
SO if you use multiple crash analytics tools , each of them may replace Global Exception handler .
I'm developing an Android app that is currently in the Play Store. I've been getting reports of a crash on certain devices that I can't reproduce, and the Play Store's built in crash diagnostics don't contain enough information. What I really need is the Logcat information from these devices, but it seems that Android 4.1 and above don't allow the use of those "Log Collector" apps that used to be so popular for this purpose due to security concerns. Is there a library that I can add to my app that will allow it to log to a remote server on demand? I know enough about this crash that I could put a call to some mythical sendLogcatNow() function in the appropriate spot in the code, if I had such a function. Since the information I seek is not actually part of the crash (the crash occurs later), normal crash reporting tools such as Crashlytics don't seem like they will do what I need, but perhaps they have this feature and it's just not prominent in the documentation. Thanks!
There are few version for crash reporting..
Hockey App
Acra
BugSense
Android Remote stack trace
Since your app can always read logs for it's own process, you can also implement something of your own.
Out of all these, I personally prefer Acra. as it is most efficient and give many options to app developers.
I'm using ACRA for logging crashes from my app but based on their documentation,
you can add your own variables content or debug traces to the reports
you can send error reports even if the application doesn't crash
Which seems to be doing what you want.
https://github.com/ACRA/acra
You will need to run your own ACRA server (simple enough to run) and get your app to send the crash logs to your server. Everything is detailed on their website.
I would look into using a third party production crash system, there are a few out there. I am currently using Crashlytics. This specific service allows you to log and set key value pairs during the running of the application that get packaged with the crash report. These services also offer greater insight into the device type, OS and a variety of other device details.
With this set up I have then created a log function that will submit to the Crashlytics service as well as logging it to log cat.
You can also use Google Analytics or Flurry. But note that Google Analytics doesn't log stack traces and Flurry doesn't support real-time log reports on server.
To collect crash reports as a developer one uses logcat. Is there a standard way for a published android application to capture crash logs so that your users can send them to you?
Is there any callback that is called when an app crashes for example? Can the strategy that logcat uses to log be adopted to a production game?
Similar question for iOS Apps:
How can I allow users to give me feedback and submit bug reports for my iOS app?
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How can I accept bug reports and other user feedback from within my app?
EDIT 1:
In addition to the frameworks mentioned in the answers below a lower level approach to capturing all uncaught exceptions can be used an is mentioned here Ideal way to set global uncaught exception Handler in Android
I personally use ACRA. I found it easy to integrate, and it meets my requirements.
Reports are sent to a spreadsheet in Google Docs, and it can be configured to send you an email every time the app crashes
Using logcat is a solution but is only feasible when crashes are coming from your own device. However, you can have the crashes occurring on your users’ devices automatically sent to you as well, including all crash and device details.
This could be done through Instabug which is a bug & crash reporting service.
It automatically sends a report containing all crash and device details once a crash occurs, plus It only takes a line of code to integrate in your app.
For full disclosure, I work at Instabug. Let me know if I can help.
You can include Flurry Analytics in your app, which does create an error log when something craches and sends in back to the server, which you have access to. It will give you all the information like the LogCat.
I hope this helps.
There is also FirebaseCrash by Google which reports logs on your Firebase console.
Read more about it here
The Google Play Developer Console also reports crashes and application not responsive, under crashes and ANRs for each app.
I'm curious if I start using ACRA error reporting will error reports still show up in the Developer Console? If not, is there a way to allow for both? I'd like to be able to log into my dev console and see any new reports then go check the ACRA spreadsheet for more information.
I actually recommend that you use bugsense in conjunction with acra. It has a really nice interface in my opinion and you can use acra fields and whatnot.